Excellent Development supports farmers in Africa to gain access to clean water and grow enough food to eat and sell, enabling them to pay their children's school fees and buy other necessities.

Farmers achieve this by organising themselves into self-help groups and improving soil and water conservation and farming techniques. Soil and water conservation is achieved through the terracing of land, planting of trees and building innovative sand dams that hold between 2-10 million litres of clean water available all year round.

In addition, Excellent Development works with development organisations at local, national and international level to apply the development model and technologies we use to enable our 2020 vision of 3 million farmers a year gaining access to clean water and growing enough food to eat and sell.

What being Planet Positive means for our business

Being a Planet Positive charity fits with Excellent Development’s philosophy and values. As an environmental charity Excellent Development takes its passion for the environment into all aspects of its work. Working with our partners Planet Positive, we have become the first charity to achieve Planet Positive Certification, by offsetting the carbon dioxide emissions from our UK business activity, plus an extra 10%.

In the UK office, we continuously work to reduce our carbon footprint by implementing efficient and effective environmental management practices. For example:

• Sourcing recycled paper & envelopes


• Double-sided printing as default


• Recycling paper, cardboard, metal and plastic

Who we work with

We support farmers living in drylands worldwide. To deliver our service we engage with a range of local, national and international development organisations. In addition we work to advance development education in the UK through schools and universities.